Palladium or copper catalyzed aminations or amidations were performed to obtain diarylamines and diarylacetamides precursors of thienocarbazoles. The fact that an ortho- bromodiarylamine did not cyclize to the corresponding thienocarbazole under conditions known for carbazoles from ortho-halodiphenylamines, conducted us to a highly efficient method of palladium-catalyzed intramolecular cyclization with N-deprotection of ortho- ...